# The role of femtolisp in Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-role-of-femtolisp-in-julia/1902>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question, history\
**Created:** [February 4, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-role-of-femtolisp-in-julia/1902 "2017-02-04T12:46:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-role-of-femtolisp-in-julia/1902/18 "2017-02-07T04:22:57Z")

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> [@abhi18av](#):
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> I read in the old archives that there’s a definite plan to have julia self-hosted.

I’m not sure where you read about a “definite” plan. There are certainly people who expressed an interest, but e.g. as @JeffBezanson [wrote](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-dev/dOAwcwm5iEA/dJFqob5HfNYJ):

> [@](#):
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> The main problem is that this involves lots of tedious work, after  
> which you end up with the same thing you started with, just  
> implemented differently. I’m not even sure I want to use LLVM in any  
> language but C++, since that’s the language it’s documented in and C++  
> APIs tend to be highly coupled to the language.

The fact is that no one appears to be seriously working on making Julia self-hosting right now. There are far too many more interesting problems to work on.

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